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Cultivating Women’s Rights for Access to Land: Country analysis and recommendations for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, and Vietnam
This desk study provides an analysis of the constraints and discrimination that women face with respect to access to rural land with the hope of informing future policy and civil society interventions. The country studies investigate statutory and customary discriminations, and they attempt to...
Customary Law of Succession in Nigeria and the Rights of Women: Need for Reform
Nigerian women are regarded as chattel, like table, tank, deep freezer, spoon, etc and so they suffer untold hardship resulting in cumulative breaches of their human rights – civil, political, social and economic. This paper will highlight the plight of women in matters of succession under...
Customary Law rule of primogeniture and its discriminatory effects on women’s inheritance rights in Nigeria: A call for reform
Denial of Women's Right of Inheritance Enhancing their Vulnerability to Domestic & Societal Violence

Research Study on Customs and Practices Prevailing in South Punjab Regarding Women's Right of Inheritance. The research explores the scope and trends in relation to women’s right to inheritance and links of women’s ownership of property and inheritance rights and their experience of...

Discriminatory Property Inheritance Under Customary Law in Nigeria: NGOs to the Rescue
The authors argue that the patterns of inheritance and succession, particularly under intestate estate under customary law in Nigeria, have almost as many variations as there are ethnic groups in the country, and many of the variations are discriminatory in practice. The law of succession and...
Displaced women, Land rights and violence in the context of the armed conflict: field testimonies of Nuba women in Sudan

The publication presents perspectives from a number of countries including Sudan reflecting the idea that women’s land, property and housing rights require treatment within a broad human rights framework and that women’s status and condition, as well as their experience of violence, is...

Dispossession and Management of Common Property: Women and Inheritance in East Africa
Double Oppression: Women and Land Matters in Kaduna State
E.J. Brill’s First Encyclopedia of Islam 1913-1936
Egalité Maintenant (arabe, français, anglais)

Egalite Maintenant a été fondée en 1992 afin de travailler pour la protection et la promotion des droits humains de la femme dans le monde entier. Travaillant avec des associations nationales pour les droits humains et avec des activistes individuels, Egalite Maintenant documente la violence et...